700.660 (21S) Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering

Sommersemester 2021

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First course session
01.03.2021 09:00 - 10:30 BBB Off Campus

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Overview

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be necessary to make changes to courses and examinations at short notice (e.g. cancellation of attendance-based courses and switching to online examinations).

For further information regarding teaching on campus, please visit: https://www.aau.at/en/corona.

Lecturer

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. habil. Johannes Huber

Course title german

Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering

Type

Lecture - Course (continuous assessment course )

Course model

Online course

Hours per Week

2.0

ECTS credits

4.0

Registrations

11 (50 max.)

Organisational unit

Institut für Vernetzte und Eingebettete Systeme

Language of instruction

Englisch

Course begins on

01.03.2021

eLearning

Go to Moodle course

Remarks (english)

Registered students have access to videos, tutorials and scripts. Live-tutorials are planned to be organized on demand (via BBB).

Time and place

Please note that the currently displayed dates may be subject to change due to COVID-19 measures.

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Course Information

English

Intended learning outcomes

The students acquire fundamental insights into information theoretical methods and their application to the assessment and optimization of digital transmission systems.

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Videos of the lectures for Home Schooling are available in English andGerman language (in German via University of Erlangen)

Tutorials: one day meeting on a Saturday in June in a lecture hall, if possible, otherwise as live BBB meeting

Course content

Basic definitions: information, entropy, mutual information; entropy for sources with memory.
Coding for data compression: source coding theorem;
Lossless data compressing codes: Huffman-, Tunstall-, Lempel-Ziv-codes, coding for sources with memory.
Description of noisy communication channels by methods of Information Theory
Principles of channel coding for reliable communications over noisy channels
Information theory for continuous random variables: differential entropy, capacity of channels with white and colored noise, bandlimited continuous-time channels
tradeoff between power and bandwidth efficiency.
Introduction to Multi-User Information Theory

Literature

lecture notes; broad literature (incl. textbooks) on information theory; e. g.

Thomas, Cover : Elements of Information Theory, 2. Edition, 2006

see: Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas

Link to further information

https://www.idc.tf.fau.de/person/johannes-huber

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

English

Modified examination information (exceptional COVID-19 provisions)

individual oral exams will take place on campus in accordance with Corona hygiene requirements.

Examination methodology

written, 90 minutes if more than 6 students apply, otherwise 30 minutes oral exam, via BBB if necessary

Date of the exam is agreed with the students in the last unit

Examination topic(s)

All chapters of the lecture notes

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

Master's degree programme Information and Communications Engineering (ICE) (SKZ: 488, Version: 15W.1)
- Subject: Networks and Communications: Advanced (NC) (Compulsory elective)
  - Wahl aus dem LV-Katalog (siehe Anhang 2) ( 0.0h VO, VK / 30.0 ECTS)
    - 700.660 Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)

Master's degree programme Information and Communications Engineering (ICE) (SKZ: 488, Version: 15W.1)
- Subject: Information and Communications Engineering: Supplements (NC, ASR) (Compulsory elective)
  - Wahl aus dem LV-Katalog (Anhang 4) ( 0.0h VK, VO, KU / 14.0 ECTS)
    - 700.660 Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)

Master's degree programme Information and Communications Engineering (ICE) (SKZ: 488, Version: 15W.1)
- Subject: Technical Complements (NC, ASR) (Compulsory elective)
  - Wahl aus dem LV-Katalog (Anhang 5) ( 0.0h VK, VO, KU / 12.0 ECTS)
    - 700.660 Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)

Master's degree programme Information and Communications Engineering (ICE) (SKZ: 488, Version: 15W.1)
- Subject: Information and Communications Engineering: Supplements (NC, ASR) (Compulsory elective)
  - Wahl aus dem LV-Katalog (Anhang 4) ( 0.0h VK, VO, KU / 14.0 ECTS)
    - 700.660 Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)

Master's degree programme Information and Communications Engineering (ICE) (SKZ: 488, Version: 15W.1)
- Subject: Technical Complements (NC, ASR) (Compulsory elective)
  - Wahl aus dem LV-Katalog (Anhang 5) ( 0.0h VK, VO, KU / 12.0 ECTS)
    - 700.660 Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)

Master's degree programme Mathematics (SKZ: 401, Version: 18W.1)
- Subject: Information and Communications Engineering (Compulsory elective)
  - 9.1 Information Theory ( 2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)
    - 700.660 Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)

Master's degree programme Technical Mathematics (SKZ: 401, Version: 13W.1)
- Subject: Informatik (Compulsory elective)
  - Ausgewählte Kapitel der Systemsicherheit ( 2.0h VK / 4.0 ECTS)
    - 700.660 Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)

Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts

Sommersemester 2025

700.660 VC Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2023

700.660 VC Information Theory and its Application to Communications Engineering (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2018

700.660 VC Information Theory (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2017

700.660 VC Information Theory (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2016

700.660 VC Information Theory (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2014

700.660 VK Information Theory and its Applications in Communication Engineering (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2013

700.660 VK Information Theory and its Applications in Communication Engineering (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)